George Eliot Quotes - Page 40

• Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?

  George Eliot

  Work, Struggle, Men

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2423, Delphi Classics

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• An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Men, Probability

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.50

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• O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!

  George Eliot

  Light, Soul, Answers

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.141

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• Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

  George Eliot

  Fate, Arrows, Breasts

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.438

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• The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Tree, Golden

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2704, ShandonPress

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• Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

  George Eliot

  Witty, Dull, Deeper

  George Eliot “Poems”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Where you have friends you should not go to inns.

  George Eliot

  Inns, Should

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3620, ShandonPress

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• Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Prayer, Wish, Ends

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4230, Delphi Classics

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• Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

  George Eliot

  Light, Broken, Darkness

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.350

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• What if my words Were meant for deeds.

  George Eliot

  What If, Deeds, Ifs

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4210, Delphi Classics

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• Our growing thought Makes growing revelation.

  George Eliot

  Growing, Revelations

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6138, Delphi Classics

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• Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Men, Games

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Chapter 29, 1866.

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• I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.627, Delphi Classics

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• What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

  George Eliot

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.261, Penguin

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• I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

  George Eliot

  Hypocrisy, Atheism, World

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?

  George Eliot

  Men, Average, Careers

  George Eliot (1883). “The Essays of George Eliot”, p.34, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

  George Eliot

  Atheism, Taste, Infinite

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.53

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• When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

  George Eliot

  Book, Reading, Men

  George Eliot (2010). “Middlemarch”, p.305, Lulu.com

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• Brothers are so unpleasant.

  George Eliot

  Brother

  George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life. By George Eliot ....”, p.108

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• When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Animal, May

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

  George Eliot

  Judging, Desire, Paradise

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.720, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

  George Eliot

  Running, Garden, Thinking

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1072, Delphi Classics

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• If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

  George Eliot

  Character, Needs, Theory

  George Eliot (2015). “Eliot's Essays: Top Essays”, p.98, 谷月社

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• O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Persistence, Night

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• It is never too late to be who you want to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are

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